'Jodorowsky's Dune' tells true story of a director's blind ambition

11:40 AM,
Mar. 20, 2014

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It's one of cinemas greatest what-ifs: What if Alejandro Jodorowsky, the trail-blazing Chilean auteur behind the midnight movie wonders "El Topo" (1970) and "The Holy Mountain" (1973) had made a big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi novel, "Dune"?

Believe it or not, it almost happened, and in spectacularly grand fashion: Jodorowsky drafted a team of artists he dubbed his "warriors" that included Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, David Carradine, Orson Welles, HR Giger and Pink Floyd. The director's quest, how it all fell apart, and the long spiritual life of his vision for ...